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Fifty years ago, Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin—and Australia’s attitude to disasters changed forever

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Rubi Kazmierczak December 27, 2024

This year’s Nobel prize exposes economics’ problem with colonialism

Michele Pingree October 21, 2024

Snakes in the city: Ten years of wildlife rescues reveal insights into human-reptile interactions

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new analysis of a decade-long collection of wildlife rescue records in NSW has delivered new insights into how humans and reptiles interact in urban environments. Researchers from Macquarie University worked with scientists from Charles Darwin University, and the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to analyze

Tomi Schildgen October 2, 2024

In 250 million years, a single supercontinent will form, wiping out nearly all mammals: Modeling study

Figure 1 from the study displaying the warmest month average temperature (degrees Celsius) for Earth and the hypothesized supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, 250 million years from now, which the researchers hypothesize would make life for most mammals extremely difficult. Credit: University of Bristol A recent study published in Nature Geoscience uses supercomputer climate models to examine

Tomi Mcnaught October 22, 2023

60 years of Antarctic ice sheet data released

A plane flies over Thwaites Glacier. Credit: BAS In a significant milestone for Antarctic research, detailed and extensive information on ice thickness and bed topography is now available for the first time in a centralized and standardized format. The comprehensive dataset, compiled over the last 60 years through ground-based and airborne surveys by more than

Margarete Motsinger July 19, 2023

Synthesizing 200 years of research on the urban impact on regional climate and extreme weather

Urban heat islands involve the higher air temperatures associated with the dense parts of cities relative to the surrounding parks and countryside. Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Researchers know that urbanization has noticeable effects on processes at and near the Earth’s surface. This affects the weather and climate in ways that have consequences for rapidly

Tami Guillemette July 13, 2023